Ellen, specially for you! :)

Linguists own the word verb ; others are only borrowing it.

Geoff Nunberg

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German is the best Language for Philosophy because all its Nouns are capitalized.

Steve Matuszek

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Aristotle Thirty Years Later: He's gotten a lot smarter since the last time I read him.

David Weinberger

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Visual thesaurus

The Visual Thesaurus is a visual representation of the English Language. In particular, word proximity is represented in 3-D space.

In the left upper corner there is a "look it up" button. I used the word "think" to get a pretty good idea of how it works -- other words may not have so many synonyms.

Non-Geographical Map

Shows a world map based not on the "formal" distance, but on how long it would take you to get there. Click on a city. I suspect the thing is mostly a joke yet, because for Irkutsk it said: "optional horseback ride through frozen Tundra", well, I don't think so. :-) But the idea is wonderful.

Word frequency animated visualizer

I guess, what all three have in common, is they represent proximity.

If you come across other um... visualties, please e-mail me at map@javaranch.comDeleteThisPart.